Concentricity control apparatus for active magnetic journal bearing of induction motor

• US 5,932,947 A
• Filed: 01/26/1998
• Issued: 08/03/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Ki-Bong
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Nestor
• Assistant Examiner(s): TAMAI, KARL I
• Application Number:
  US09/012,769
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 310/90.5
• US Class Current: 310/90.5
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 32/0444 Details of devices to control the actuation of the electromagnets
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 32/0459 Details of the magnetic circuit
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 32/0465 with permanent magnets provided in the magnetic circuit of the electromagnets
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/09 with magnetic bearings

Abstract

A concentricity control apparatus induction for controlling a concentricity between a stator body and a rotor body in an induction motor. The concentricity control apparatus for a concentricity controlling induction motor has a sensor for detecting an eccentricity of a rotor body, an operating unit for operating an electrical current in order to correct an eccentricity according to the detection of the sensor, and a driving circuit for controlling the electrical current of the rotor body. A core control unit so constructed as to apply to a core direction of the rotor body an electromagnetic force perpendicular to a central rotating shaft of the rotor body.

Claims

1. An active magnetic journal bearing for controlling an eccentricity of a rotor axle of a motor, comprising:

a rotor connected to and rotating with the rotor axle of the motor;

a stator bobbin cylindrically formed without any poles and disposed around said rotor with an air gap therebetween;

a coil wound on the outside of said stator bobbin with a plurality of windings;

a sensor for detecting any eccentricity of said rotor and said stator bobbin;

an operation unit for calculating an instantaneous mutual inductance between said rotor and said stator bobbin based on the eccentricity detected by said sensor, for estimating a correction current to correct the detected eccentricity of the rotor according to the calculated mutual inductance, and for generating control signals corresponding to the estimated correction current in order to increase or decrease an electric current applied to said coil; and

a driving circuit for controlling the electric current applied to said coil according to the control signals generated from said operation unit.

2. An active magnetic journal bearing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the instantaneous mutual inductance (M_ij) between said rotor and said stator bobbin is calculated by the following formula:

##EQU8## where, μ

=permeability, R_s =a radius of the rotor,

R_p =a radius from the center axis of the stator bobbin to the coil,

γ

=a distance from the center axis of the stator bobbin to a certain point on the rotor, which is derived from the eccentricity (μ

), ##EQU9## Z=an axial distance between the rotor and the stator bobbin (=0 in this case),

φ

=angular coordinate

E, K=complete elliptic integrals of the first and second kind.

3. A method of controlling an eccentricity of a rotor axle of a motor for an active magnetic journal bearing which includes a rotor connected to and rotating with a rotor axle of the motor, a stator bobbin cylindrically formed without any poles and disposed about the rotor but separated from the rotor by an air gap, a coil wound on the outside of the stator bobbin with a plurality of windings, a sensor for detecting an eccentricity of the rotor in the stator bobbin, an operation unit for generating control signals in order to control an electric current applied to the coil, and a driving circuit for controlling the electric current applied to the coil according to the control signals generated from the operation unit, said method comprising the steps of:

detecting an eccentricity of the rotor in the stator bobbin;

calculating an instantaneous mutual inductance between the rotor and the stator bobbin on the basis of the detected eccentricity of the rotor;

estimating a correction current to correct the eccentricity of the rotor according to the calculated mutual inductance; and

generating control signals corresponding to the estimated correction current to the driving circuit to increase or decrease an electric current applied to the coil.